Places! Sept. 11-17, 2017

Welcome to Places!, which has a Monday-to-Sunday cycle and rounds up our picks for the best theater, dance, classical music, opera, comedy, spoken word/poetry, cabaret and other performing arts on local stages and arts on film in movie theaters. Of all the local print and/or digital publications out there, it's the only weekly list of best bets that covers the range of performing arts—and only performing arts.

This week: New seasons for the Elevator Project, Cara Mía Theatre and the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth; national tours of Fun Home and Beautiful; and a world premiere of a play based on murder that happened in Dallas.

This list doesn't have everything happening in this week's cycle, but we've hit the highlights. For more listings, click the red calendar button at the top right of the page, and then you'll see a search function where you can search for events by presenting company, venue, title, description, date range and more options. The list is still growing with the new seasons, and should be full in the next few weeks.

Note: Theater productions that have opened in a previous cycle and are in the middle of the run are not in the list below, but you can find them in the listings (see paragraph above). When a show is in its final weekend, we'll mention it in the "Last Chance" section of Places!

The tour of the 2015 Best Musical Tony winner finally comes to North Texas. The piece, by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about coming out as a lesbian, and searching for answers in the mystery of her gay father who killed himself. | Sept. 13-24

The TITAS season continues with this group that includes choreographers and dancers representing the cultures of Venezuela, Cuba, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia. The work "fuses Latin dance with classical and contemporary techniques creating a new style of concert dance where theatricality and passion propel every move." | 8 p.m. Sept. 15 and 16

British playwright Paul Kalburgi wrote this verbatim play, which he also directs, about the 2015 Dallas murder of a transgender woman. The cast includes some transgender actors, and is taken from the transcripts of interviews with the people involved in or adjacent to the story. Presented at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center in Oak Cliff. | Sept. 15-24

The new group American Baroque Opera Company debuts with this showcase of baroque opera music, presented cabaret style with masks, and the audience is welcome to wear masks as well. This is the first event in the 2017-17 season for AT&T Performing Arts Center's Elevator Project. | 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15 & 16

Cara Mía Theatre Company opens its season by reviving David Lozano and Lee Trull's play about a Dreamer in the era of DACA, which has wild new relevance since the current president is threatening to rescind the program. There will be a mini local tour, starting at SMU this week, University of North Texas next week, and then the Latino Cultural Center; before it goes to Houston and Los Angeles. | Sept. 14-29

The tour of the acclaimed musical about songwriter Carole King make a second stop in North Texas, this time at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall. The chorus includes Dallas actress Tracy Lee. | Sept. 12-17

Hip Pocket Theatre's final stage production of the year is a new autobiographical play by Johnny Simons about two brothers, raised by their grandmother, who have a life-changing experience. The cartoons in this fantasy include Betty Boop and Hello Kitty. | Sept. 15-Oct. 8

Wong, a comedian who also writes for the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, has received shout-outs from comics like Marc Maron and Amy Schumer, notably for her 2016 Netflix special Baby Cobra. Come see what the buzz is about. The first show is sold out, and a second was added, at the Majestic Theatre in downtown. | 7 & 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16

Rothbart has had a Comedy Central special, and was a series regular on the short-lived ABC show Downward Dog, which starred former Dallasite Allison Tolman. He appears all weekend at Hyena's Comedy Night Club Dallas. | Sept. 14-16

In October, Teatro Dallas will present two plays adapted from the work of Juan Rulfo and Alfredo Cardona Peña; and this prelude of sorts features the short film Macario, based on a story by Rulfo. There will also be staged readings of Rulfo's Luvina and Peña's The Camellia. | 8 p.m. Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday (Sept. 15-17)

The Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum has improv and sketch performances by local and regional troupes at various times on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with free improv jam sessions and stand-up open mikes on Tuesdays. Closed Sundays and Mondays.

Host Michael Guinn leads this weekly open mike; participants earn points to see who makes it to Cowtown's award-winning national slam team. You can also just go to watch and listen. | 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Dec. 22

The Dallas Public Library Central Branch presents an open mic for musicians, poets and other performers. At the J. Erik Jonsson Library in downtown Dallas. | 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of the month.

» For complete listings of what's happening on North Texas stages, click on the calendar iconat the top right of the page. Once there, you can click the red "Search the Calendar" box, and search for listings by dates, performance type, the presenting company, titles or descriptions. For instance, type "Shakespeare" into the description field, click SEARCH and you'll find a host of performances (theater, dance, music, etc.) by, adapted from or about the Bard.

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